Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VEDIC HYMNS.
Pari-manyú, which occurs but once in the Rig-veda, corresponds as nearly as possible to the Greek περίθυμος. Manyú, like Ouós, means courage, spirit, anger; and in the compound parimanyú, as in nepiduos, the preposition pári seems to strengthen the simple notion of the word. That pári is used in that sense in later Sanskrit is well known; for instance, in parilaghu, perlevis, parikshama, withered away: see Pott, Etymologische Forschungen, second edition, vol. I, p. 487. How pári, originally meaning round about, came to mean excessive, is difficult to explain with certainty. It may have been, because what surrounds exceeds, but it may also have been because what is done all around a thing is done thoroughly. See Curtius, Grundzüge, fifth edition, p. 274. Thus we find in the Veda, VIII, 75, 9, pári-dveshas, lit. one who hates all around, then a great hater:
má nah ... pári-dveshasah amhatih, armih ná návam a vadhît.
May the grasp of the violent hater strike us not, as the wave strikes a ship.
Again, pari-spridh means literally one who strives round about, then an eager enemy, a rival (fem.):
IX, 53, 1. nudásva yah pari-spridhah. Drive away those who are rivals.
Pari-krosa means originally one who shouts at one from every side, who abuses one roundly, then an angry reviler. This word, though not mentioned in B. R.'s Dictionary, occurs in
I, 29, 7. sárvam pari-krosám gahi. Kill every reviler!
The same idea which is here expressed by pari-krosá, is in other places expressed by pari-ráp, lit. one who shouts round about, who defies on every side, a calumniator, an enemy, one who 'be-rattles.'
II, 23, 3. å vi-bãdhya pari-rápah. Having struck down the enemies. II, 23, 14. vi pari-rápak ardaya. Destroy the enemies. In the same way as the words meaning to hate, to
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